"Why have you mortals come here?"
Song Wen's voice crossed more than a hundred miles and rang directly in the ears of the six soldiers.
Upon hearing this, the six men's expressions abruptly changed to utter astonishment as they raised their heads and looked around.
Naturally, they found nothing. All they saw were withered yellow grasses and trees covering the mountains, the result of the faint poisonous vapors leaking from the formation. Though the poison had not caused all things to wither and die, it carried an invisible, chilling air of slaughter.
But in the next moment, the six men became wildly overjoyed.
"Reporting to Immortal Master, I am Zhao Hou. By the order of His Majesty Zhao Tiancheng of the Heavenly Jade Dynasty, I have come to beg Immortal Master to intervene and save the Heavenly Jade Dynasty from the depths of fire and water."
"Sixty years ago, a demon rat suddenly appeared in Tanwei City in the north of the dynasty. It was as large as a calf, with eyes red as blood and claws and fangs as sharp as refined steel. Moreover, the beast possessed great intelligence and controlled a vast number of gray rats."
"The rat swarm fed on flesh and blood. Wherever it passed, whether wild beasts, livestock, or living people, none could escape the fate of being torn apart and gnawed to the bone."
"At first, the rat swarm was limited in number and only dared attack remote villages. But as they devoured more and more flesh and blood, their numbers grew ever greater, beyond counting. The demon rat's strength also rose with the tide, and it gradually began attacking towns and even cities."
"To this day, more than a thousand villages and over a dozen cities of the Heavenly Jade Dynasty have been